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New Tech Bends Sound Through Space So It Reaches Only Your Ear in a Crowd

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This is the key to our technique: We use two ultrasound beams at different frequencies that are completely silent on their own. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Normally, sound waves combine linearly , meaning they just proportionally add up into a bigger wave.

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How machine learning can be used to identify microplastics

Fast Company Tech

We use a machine learning technique called conformal prediction. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Sophisticated algorithms whose inner workings can be opaque make these predictions, so the lack of an uncertainty measure becomes an even greater problem when machine learning is involved.

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What Makes the Human Brain Unique? Scientists Compared It With Monkeys and Apes to Find Out

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The advent of medical imaging techniques , however, has opened up new possibilities to look inside the brains of animals quickly, in great detail, and without harming the animal. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. The post What Makes the Human Brain Unique?

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NASA’s Curiosity Rover Has Made a Significant Discovery in the Search for Alien Life

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The sample from Cumberland has been analyzed by the Sam instrument many times, using different experimental techniques, and has shown evidence of clay minerals, as well as the first (smaller and simpler) organic molecules found on Mars, back in 2015. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.

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The Challenges of Protecting Intellectual Property on Social Networks

NTEN

Specifically, the surrendering of licenses to use nonprofits' content as each network sees fit. you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook ("IP License").

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A Few More Tips for Nonprofit Professionals To Avoid Getting Overwhelmed

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by Real Blades, Creative Common License. Here are two more tips for productivity routines: Daily/Weekly/Monthly/Quarterly Looking Ahead Rituals. I use the technique of Bullet Journals , a hand-written system to manage your to-do lists. I’m overwhelmed getting back into the daily grind, how about you?

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8 ways startups are changing the healthcare industry

The Next Web

Startups are using quantified self data to solve infertility ( Glow ), running big data analysis on differential diagnoses for cancer treatments (HC Pathways) and applying ad tech techniques to find correlations in disease treatment (Flatiron Health). Michael Mayernick , Spinnakr. . Seth Talbott , AtomOrbit. .

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